| What
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| • | Mobile
agents are programs that “move” in a |
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| network. |
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| – | Ex,
to query a network, instead of one host sequentially |
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| querying
all hosts, send an agent that moves from host |
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| to
host to do the querying. |
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| • | Agents
have interesting and complicated behavior. |
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| – | Parallel
Replication/Recursion |
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| – | Cooperation |
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